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Finke breaks news of pending Variety layoffs — three months after the PMC deal closed
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013, Nikki Finke published a Deadline.com item announcing that PMC was planning Variety editorial firings in March. The story was unusual not because the layoffs were happening — that was widely expected — but because the breaking of…
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Janice Min’s January 2013 THR reinforcement hires — Magzanyan, Belloni, and the path to break-even
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2013) · Wayback archive → In late January 2013 The Hollywood Reporter announced a slate of hires across marketing and editorial — Anna Magzanyan as VP of marketing, plus Matthew Belloni’s elevation to executive editor and other moves on the digital side. The FishbowlLA framing was…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company gets a new name and a new boss
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2013 In January 2013 FishbowlLA reported a corporate rebrand that signaled bigger ambitions for The Hollywood Reporter’s owner — and a sharper rivalry at the top of the trade business. Then Under Guggenheim Partners, The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company — until…
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When the Academy’s first online-balloting year produced a same-day awards-press dustup
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → The 2012-2013 Oscar season was the first year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved to online member balloting, and the rollout went poorly. The press story that surfaced the problem belonged to Scott Feinberg at THR. The story…
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Animal Radio’s Davy Jones final-interview re-air — a 2012 obit-in-broadcast format
By Sasha Park · Originally reported by Richard Horgan (2012) · Wayback archive → In late December 2012, syndicated weekly Animal Radio announced it would re-air its final interview with Davy Jones — the Monkees frontman who had died in February 2012 of a heart attack at 66. The interview had been one of the…
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April 2012: Jay A. Fernandez joins Indiewire from The Hollywood Reporter
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, April 2012 In late April 2012, FishbowlLA covered Jay A. Fernandez officially starting at Indiewire as senior writer and news editor. The move — from The Hollywood Reporter — had first been announced by Anne Thompson on her Indiewire blog. Then…
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February 2012: Janice Min on rebuilding The Hollywood Reporter — the AvantGuild interview
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, February 2012 In mid-February 2012, FishbowlLA picked up a Mediabistro AvantGuild “So What Do You Do?” interview with Janice Min — the editor who had rebuilt The Hollywood Reporter. The original framing pulled out a detail about Min and Twitter: an…
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Penske names Variety’s first female publisher
By Owen Reyes · Republished 2026-05-20 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, 2012 Days after Penske Media completed its purchase of Variety, FishbowlLA noted a milestone in the trade’s long history: its first female publisher. Then Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, a 15-year Variety veteran whose titles already included sales director, managing director of features and…